The Reason I Talk To Myself

From Brain Droppings (1997). The joke is both a self-portrait and a joke about intellectual stubbornness: Carlin presents his internal monologue as the only reliable conversation, because it's the one where the interlocutor already shares all his premises and will inevitably reach the same conclusions. It is a comic celebration of the echo chamber that also gently satirises the insularity of someone who finds outside views unsatisfactory by definition.